Quickly Finding Known Software Problems via Automated Symptom Matching
Brodie, M.; Sheng Ma; Lohman, G.; Mignet, L.; Wilding, M.; Champlin, J.; Sohn, P.
Autonomic Computing, 2005. ICAC 2005. Proceedings. Second International Conference on
Volume , Issue , 13-16 June 2005 Page(s):101 - 110
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICAC.2005.49
Summary:We present an architecture for and prototype of a system for quickly detecting software problem recurrences. Re-discovery of the same problem is very common in many large software products and is a major cost component of product support. At run-time, when a problem occurs, the system collects the problem symptoms, including the program call-stack, and compares it against a database of symptoms to find the closest matches. The database is populated off-line using solved cases and indexed to allow for efficient matching. Thus problems that occur repeatedly can be easily and automatically resolved without requiring any human problem-solving expertise. We describe a prototype implementation of the system, including the matching algorithm, and present some experimental results demonstrating the value of automatically detecting re-occurrence of the same problem for a popular sofware product
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